Maps with R

Ilya Kashnitsky

17 June 2021

Map projections

https://xkcd.com/977/

Mercator explained

Mercator size

Mercator: Greenland vs Africa

New fancy projection (Waterman Butterfly)

http://epsg.io

Are we too focused on areas?

Sources of geodata

https://gadm.org/data.html

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles

google “download shapefile” =)

Where to go next?

Materials

https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net

https://cengel.github.io/R-spatial/

https://bookdown.org

https://www.r-bloggers.com

Packages to explore

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tmap/vignettes/tmap-getstarted.html

https://r-spatial.github.io/sf

https://walkerke.github.io/tidycensus/articles/basic-usage.html

https://bhaskarvk.github.io/tilegramsR/

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/voteogram/vignettes/intro_to_voteogram.html

https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/cartogram.html